Hoa Nguyen’s lecture, “Living Room,” considers the meaning and purpose of creative writing classes, and draws upon her extensive history of teaching poetics through deep reading and ‘living’ with poets. This is a spacious talk, with lots of descriptions of images the listener gets to dream through. This lecture was given in Seattle, WA on April 21, 2016 in partnership with Hugo House. It begins with a dedication to her mother, Diệp Anh Nguyễn, whose life story is gestured toward throughout Nguyen's latest collection, A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure (Wave Books, 2021).

Read Nguyen's essay by the same name that accompanies this lecture, here.